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A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
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A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A high-wing light sport aircraft with a broad glazed cabin and tricycle landing gear.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A pressurised single turboprop with a large cargo door and a broad range of working roles.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A four-engine Airbus wide-body developed in parallel with the A330.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A twin-aisle Boeing designed alongside the 757's generation of two-pilot flight decks.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A modern utility single whose family includes both tailwheel and nosewheel configurations.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
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